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Transports / Utility
 
Type: Vickers Warwick CMk I four crew transport.
Max Speed: 251 mph at 6,050 ft.
Climb Rate: ??? ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 21,500 ft.
Range: 2,300 miles.
Armament: 9,600 lb of freight.
Photo: RAF Museum
Though finished in standard RAF camouflage, the Warwick transport operated by BOAC in the North African and Mediterranean theaters carried large civil registrations underlined in red, white and blue to emphasize their civilian nature.

 
Type: Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle Mk II Four crew paratroop transport , and glider tug.
Max Speed: 265 mph at 10,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 980 ft per minute.
Service Ceiling: 18,000 ft.
Range: 1,300 miles.
Armament: two 0.303 in  7.7 mm machine guns in a dorsal turret.
Photo: Musee de 1' Air
The A.W41 prototype reveals the salient features of the Albemarle, an ineffective bomber that became an adequate airborne force support aircraft.

 

Type: Hawker Siddeley (Armstrong Whitworth) Argosy C.Mk 1 four crew medium range logistic and troop transport.
Max Speed: 268 mph at 20,000 ft.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 23,000 ft.
Range: 345 miles with maximum payload.
Payload: 69 troops, or 54 paratroops, or 48 litters plus
attendants, or 29,000 lb of freight.
Photo: Coll B. Thouanel
Two of the features distinguishing the military version of the Argosy from the civil counterpart were the horizontally knife-edged rear doors and the thimble radome for the weather radar on the nose.

 

Type: Short Belfast C.Mk 1 six crew long range heavy
transport.
Max Speed: 352 mph at 28,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 1,060 ft per minute.
Service Ceiling: 30,000 ft.
Range: 1,000 miles with maximum payload.
Payload: 250 troops or 77,500 lb of freight.
Photo: RAF Museum
In 1970 the RAFs long range heavy transport commitment was deemed superfluous, and the Belfast were offered on the civil market. Five were bought by TAC Heavy Lift, four were scrapped, and one is preserved in a museum.

 

Type: Blackburn Beverley C.Mk 1 four crew medium range utility transport.
Max Speed: 238 mph at 5,700 ft.
Climb Rate: 760 ft per minute.
Service Ceiling: 16,000 ft.
Range: 1,300 miles.
Payload: 94 troops, or 74 paratroops, or 45,000 lb of freight.
Photo: RAF Museum
The Large hold and clamshell rear doors of the Beverley made it easy to load and unload and paratroop drops were problem free.

 

Type: Bristol Bombay three crew transport and second bomber.
Max Speed: 192 mph at 6,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 750 ft per minute.
Service Ceiling: 25,000 ft.
Range: 880 miles.
Armament: two 0.303 in 7.7 mm machine guns in nose and tail turrets, and up to 2,000 lb of bombs.
Photo: Musee de 1' Air
The Bombay was a useful Middle Eastern type, and served briefly as a night bomber during 1940 and 1941 against the Italians in Libya.

 

Type: Shorts C-23A Sherpa two/three crew utility fighter.
Max Speed: 218 mph at 10,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 1,180 ft. per minute.
Service Ceiling: 20,000 ft.
Range: 225 miles with maximum payload.
Payload: 7,000 lb of freight.
Photo: Cool B. Thouanel
The US Air Force used the C-23A to moved high priority items such as replacement engines from a central depot to airfields throughout Europe.

 

Type: de Havilland Comet C.Mk 2 five crew transport.
Max Speed: 508 mph at 40,000 ft.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 40,000 ft.
Range: 2,535 miles with maximum passenger payload.
Payload: 44 passenger.
Photo: RAF Museum
The Comet C.Mk 2 achieved a virtually flawless record in service with the Royal Air Force.

 

Type: de Havilland D. H. 89A Dragon Rapide one/two crew
light transport.
Max Speed: 157 mph at 1,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 867 ft per minute.
Service Ceiling: 19,500 ft.
Range: 578 miles.
Payload: nine passenger.
Photo: P. Guerin
In the Second World War the D. H.89 was used for training and as a light transport, but after the war most of the survivors entered the civil aviation field.

 

Type: Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer two/three crew utility
STOL transport.
Max Speed: 165 mph at 2,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 1,250 ft per minute.
Service Ceiling: 20,000 ft.
Range: 210 miles with maximum payload.
Payload: 13 troops, or 11 paratroops, or freight.
Photo: RAF Museum
The Twin Pioneer was used by two British based and five overseas squadrons in Bahrain, and single squadrons in Aden, the Far East, and Kenya.

 

Type: Shorts SC.7 Skyvan Series 3 two crew utility light
transport.
Max Speed: 203 at 10,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 1,640 ft per minute.
Service Ceiling: 22,500 ft.
Range: 694 miles with a 4,000 lb payload.
Payload: 22 passenger or 4,600 lb of freight.
Photo: M. Rostaing
With its braced wing, fixed landing gear, and rectangular section fuselage, the Skyvan appears ungainly, but has proved its utility value with several civil and military operators. This is a Skyvan of the United Arab Emirates.

 

Type: Vickers T.Mk 1 four crew transport.
Max Speed: 258 mph at 10,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 1,275 per minute.
Service Ceiling: 22,200 ft.
Range: 530 miles with 20 paratroops, or freight.
Payload: 34 troops, or 20 paratroops, or freight.
Photo: RAF Museum
The Military derivative of the Viking Mk 1B with its metal skinned wings, the Vaeletta differed little from its civil counterpart in external features.

 

Type: Avor York C.Mk 1 five crew transport.
Max Speed: 298 mph at 21,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 1,500 ft per minute.
Service Ceiling: 23,000 ft.
Range: 2,700 miles.
Payload: 24 passenger or 10,000 lb of freight.
Photo: RAF Museum
The registration G-AGJA identifies thus as the first of 25 civil Yorks, basically similar to the York C.Mk 1, delivered to the British Overseas Airways Corporation for use on its wartime service from England to Egypt via Morocco.

 

 

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